> I don't really mind top or bottom post.
I don't either, but it really should be one or the other; otherwise, you're
jumping up and down to follow a thread. But that's because of the next
point, where we disagree completely.
> But the important thing is to trim anything you've quoted to just the
useful bits. We don't need to see every single post to the thread every time
someone adds a new post.
I strongly disagree with this. In personal (one-on-one) correspondence, it
makes sense, but not in email-based groups/forums, where members come and go
at various points in time. A member should be able to jump into a thread and
easily review the whole issue in one email. Having to go back and look at
every trimmed message to piece together the entire thread is painful and,
frankly, won't usually be done. This is also why top posting is better. The
combination of the two (NOT trimming and top posting) means that a new
entrant to the discussion can review the entire thread in one email
(admittedly, having to page-up) while someone who has been participating in
the discussion for a while can simply look at the top-posted most recent
response(s).
I think we actually have an example of the trimming problem in this thread.
I may be wrong, and Michael Black may jump in to say I'm wrong, but a key
comment of mine had been trimmed, viz., the <SQLite3.dll> doesn't even
appear in the application directory of the two conflicting apps. If Michael
had seen that in a non-trimmed message, I'm guessing he would not have said,
"Can't you just copy the DLL into the application directory?" Come to think
of it, by the time it got to Michael, "TurboTax" and "HP Connection Manager"
(the two conflicting programs) had been trimmed out of the message. I would
argue that those are "useful bits" of this thread.
I think there are times when trimming is appropriate, but in most cases, I
think that threads should be left intact. Just my humble, of course. Cheers, Joe
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [sqlite] Incompatible versions of SQLite on same system
From: Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org>
To: General Discussion of SQLite Database <sqlite-users@sqlite.org>
Date: Thursday, January 12, 2012 19:54:56
On 13 Jan 2012, at 1:46am, Joe Winograd wrote:
Thanks for the clarification.
My pleasure. Triggers do generally work in the most useful way. Try coding it
and see if it works for you.
Btw, is bottom-posting the standard in this group? As you can tell, I'm rather
fond of top-posting. Yes, I've ready many of the arguments why bottom-posting
is better – I simply don't buy it. But I'll be happy to comply with group
standards.
Bottom posting is the proper way to do it. I don't really mind top or bottom
post. But the important thing is to trim anything you've quoted to just the
useful bits. We don't need to see every single post to the thread every time
someone adds a new post.
Simon.
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